David Coutadeur wrote: > > Hello, > > > Le 17/09/2025 à 15:57, Howard Chu a écrit : >> David Coutadeur wrote: >>> Hi everyone! >>> >>> >>> I don't know if this is intended or not, but when I run OpenLDAP with logs >>> attached on stderr, like: >>> >>> ./slapd -h 'ldap://*:389 ldaps://*:636' -F ./slapd.d -u ldap -g ldap -d 256 >>> >>> the logs do not enforce olcLogFileFormat. >> stderr is for debug messages only. It is not "logs" and therefore none of >> the logging directives affect it. > > Ok, thanks for the clarification. > > I think it could be interresting to have a parameter for this. > > For example, with containerization, it is considered as a good practice to > make the main process send logs directly to stdout
Then you could just use `logfile /dev/stdout` or somesuch. > > > Regards, > >>> >>> For example: >>> >>> 68b6fe23.27b26379 0x7fe756a70e40 @(#) $OpenLDAP: slapd 2.6.10 (May 21 2025 >>> 22:00:00) $ >>> >>> instead of: >>> >>> Sep 02 16:21:50 hostname slapd[12345]: slapd starting >>> >>> >>> Is this the expected behaviour? If so, are there any plans for having an >>> option to set the date in stderr logs? >>> >>> Thanks in advance for any response! >>> >>> Regards, >>> >> -- -- Howard Chu CTO, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc/ Chief Architect, OpenLDAP http://www.openldap.org/project/
